Lewry swing floors leaders

YORKSHIRE'S path to the top of the county championship has been studded with huge first-innings totals, but yesterday they lost their way in spectacular fashion against Sussex, their nearest rivals. Put in to bat under grey skies by Chris Adams, the man who would have been captaining them here had he not changed his mind in the winter, Yorkshire were dismissed for 139. But for a last-wicket stand of 44 between Ajmal Shahzad and Deon Kruis, their embarrassment would have felt more like humiliation.

Adams has revealed that he first had misgivings about moving north when, driving his family through the congested streets of Headingley on a dark evening in November, he saw his two daughters in the back "looking mortified". As the wickets tumbled yesterday, the same probably applied to the home dressing-room.

Conditions certainly suited the Sussex seamers once play got under way at 2.45pm after the first